You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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